Tuck's Executive Program
The Tuck School next summer will launch a new four-week educational program aimed at furthering the professional development of promising young managers. Applications are being sought from companies wishing to sponsor executives with 10 to 15 years' experience, proven performance, and clear potential for future policy-level responsibility.
Specific objectives of the Executive Program, which is scheduled for July 14 through August 9, are 1) to broaden the participant's understanding of the role of manager, 2) to improve his or her analytical and decision-making skills, and 3) to increase the executive's understanding of the unique function and responsibility of business in society.
The central thrust of the program will be on design and implementation of business policy, approached through three major topic areas: Planning and Control, Managerial Economics, and Organizational Behavior. Nine senior professors, eight from Tuck and one from Stanford University, will comprise the teaching faculty. Class meetings - three on weekdays and two on Saturdays - will be augmented by scheduled group discussions, informal sessions, and occasional lectures by visiting experts.
Participants will be housed in the new Tuck Mall dormitory, and meals will be served at the Hanover Inn. Classes and other programs are scheduled for the Murdough Center. Accommodations will be available at the Inn for the final three days, when spouses will be invited to join the participants for a special program.
The $2500 fee includes housing, meals and all instructional materials. Applications - addressed to Professor Kenneth R. Davis, Director of the Executive Program, at the Tuck School - must be received by April 1. Additional information is available from Professor Davis, who has indicated his willingness to confer with company officials about the selection of a nominee.
The new kid usually comes into town with flamboyant plans for changes. So, being the new kid, it seemed wise to look over the Alumni Magazine for 1943 - Charlie Widmayer's first year as editor - then discovering that most of those grandiose schemes have already been tried and, in some cases, discarded as old hat. So, feeling somewhat daunted, we changed the type on the cover.
There was a war on in 1943, and in October of that year Charlie Widmayer ran a" article on the Navy V-12 program at Dartmouth. In this issue there is an article on the future of ROTC, so it is possible that we have come full circle. The October 1943 Alumni Magazine also carried the names of men who were missing in action, or killed in the battle of the Solomon Islands, or "killed in action somewhere in the South Pacific."
And there was an advertisement for a house in Lyme ("Built in 1810 ... beautiful paneling, wide-board floors, two baths, eight rooms in main part, six in 'ell' ... moderately priced at $10,000"). The advertisements in this issue would suggest that times have changed.
In the. Alumni Magazine of 30 years ago there also was a short piece by the late A. J. Liebling '24, war correspondent for the New Yorker. We mention this partly because Joe Liebling wrote very well and because it was he who, at another time, said "Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one." That is worth thinking about.
In the meantime consider the list of "Ten Don'ts" delivered by Charlie Widmayer at his retirement party:
1. Don't fight the retirement send off your colleagues may want to give you. Remember how you always welcomed any opportunity for an office party.
2. Don't believe all the glowing things they say about you or the job you did. More than likely, there is a horren- dous gap between what is said and the reality.
3. Don't, on the other hand, overdue the modesty bit. Remember that modesty is the fig leaf of mediocrity.
4. Don't forget that retirement is no great thing. It happens all by itself if you can manage to stay alive long enough and don't get fired.
5. Don't think, even secretly, that things are going to fall apart because you're leaving. Without you things might be a lot better - and probably will be.
6. Don't keep saying, "Brother; I am getting out just in time." Others will say it for you.
7. Don't think that leaving the office is no great wrench because you will be able to drift back there to pass the time of day. There are enough alumni doing that already.
8. Don't resent having to provide your own pencils, rubber bands and paper clips from now on.
9. Don't say too much about Social Security in the presence of your colleagues. While your benefits are going up they will be paying for them.
10. Don't let yourself think, poor fool, that at long last you are free. The outside world is lying in wait for you, and the one thing you'll be told over and over is that you are going to be busier than ever.
